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Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update on residential property prices brought home the Reserve Bank of Australia's current concerns and noted in its March monetary policy statement: "Conditions in the housing market vary considerably around ...

Life insurance ripe for disruption

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Unprecedented challenges in the life insurance industry are exacerbating profitably and forcing some players out of the market, the latest PwC report shows. Customer demographics, ongoing trust issues, heightened regulation, foreign entrants, technology ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Chinese authorities' regulatory restrictions to cool the housing market appear to be having little impact on property prices. Latest figures show that the average price of new homes in 70 Chinese cities rose by 0.3% in the month of February following ...

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
In its 9 March statement, the European Central Bank (ECB) stated that, "A very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if ...

Perennial portfolio manager leaves industry

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... Management stepped down from his role and has retired from the industry. Tony Oesterheld joined Perennial in 2007, taking research responsibility for the Tony Oesterheld steels, utilities, building materials, miscellaneous industrials and diversified ...

US corporate debt mandate signed to Aussie manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... cheaper five years ago, but globally it is still too cheap. Carden, who oversees the Supervised Global Income Fund, says research indicates investors can make 700 basis points over LIBOR in the US market through a double B-rated corporate loan backed ...

Standard Life marks Australian real estate as top performer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... regional shopping centres should also perform well", with Perth expected to underperform, according to head of real estate research Anne Breen. In its Q1 2017 Real Estate Update report, the demand for commercial real estate in Asia Pacific "remains positive" ...

Workers' retirement angst growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... Australians are not prepared for retirement, while those already retired fear of outliving their savings, the latest research from Investment Trends shows. According to the 2016 Retirement Income Report, 44% of the 6987 surveyed over the age of 40 feel ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
There's "One Direction (1D)" - the English-Irish pop music boy band -- and there's the Bank of England (BOE). Like the big event of March - the US Federal Reserve lifted the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% - 1.0% at its 15-16 March FOMC meeting ...

Midwinter adds fintech partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... Midwinter added a new life insurance software solutions provider to its advice operating system AdviceOS. Omnium's life risk research tool OmniLife has been integrated into AdviceOS to enable real-time flow of insurance premium product data to the AdviceOS ...